Word: graciousness
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...Lebanese people deeply appreciate and will never forget your gracious and decisive efforts to help bring an end to the suffering of my country. We see the U.S. role as the indispensable ingredient toward bringing peace not only to Lebanon but to the whole region." So said the new President of Lebanon, Amin Gemayel, 40, to Ronald Reagan on the south driveway of the White House last week. The American President has not heard that kind of talk from many Arab leaders lately. More important, officials hoped that the Gemayel visit to Washington would speed up the search...
...Department correspondent during the Carter Administration, Ogden prepped for the interview by renewing old contacts with former Carter aides and reviewing stories and his own yellowing notes. Recalls Ogden: "Carter is not a politician in the traditional sense who feels compelled to put up a false friendly front. While gracious, he was, as usual, all business." When the four-hour interview was over, Carter said: "TIME wrote some tough stories about me in the past, but I'm really happy you're publishing me. In TIME my book will reach the largest potential worldwide readership...
...Volga. Enter stage left the Soviet version of Gogol's greedy Inspector General. The inspector is put up in a luxurious little hotel on the picturesque banks of the Volga, especially built for the pleasure of inspectors and other snoopy officials from Moscow. It stands in a gracious park surrounded by a barbed-wire-topped fence and guarded by burly professional wrestlers. The hotel staff includes a cook who serves up the local delicacy, sterlet fish from the Volga, and a team of maids who provide sex. The high point of the visitor's tour of inspection...
...Ahmed's home, his parents are warm and gracious. Within minutes, several of the family have gathered-sisters, brothers-in-law and their children. Soldiers saunter in. The discussion starts out focusing on Ahmed's whereabouts, and soon splinters into everything, from the Syrians to the weather to abstract politics. An old soldier suggests: "People are better than governments." Farouk gets an idea where Ahmed might be, and the taxi is off again, passing a mosque with a charred black wall on which some child has painted a bright blue plane dropping bright blue bombs. Rubbish burning everywhere...
...have a visa for the U.S., the local officials told him not to worry, he would probably be welcomed anyway. Wilson boarded the plane, as did two U.S. marshals. When the plane landed at Kennedy International Airport at 12:30 p.m., the marshals arrested him. "He was very gracious," said one of the marshals. "He acted as if he had played a hard game and was being a good loser...